On 23/08/11 20:25, Peter J. Pouliot wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 08:03:26PM +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
On 23/08/11 13:59, Jim Perrin wrote:
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Peter J. Pouliotpeter@pouliot.netwrote:
What license are these drivers covered under?GPL v2.
The drivers are currently in staging on the mainline kernel. My goal, note I am not speaking for the company of I work for (SUSE), or the company who pays for the room I sit in (MSFT), is to help get the work our team has done for the last five years integrated into all linux distributions.
So long as they are GPLv2, and your company/code copyright holder is willing to provide something showing there's no danger of lawsuit/DMCA infringement for distribution I see no issues with providing them.
The driver source is already included in the RHEL6 kernel, in drivers/staging/hv but because it's still in staging Red Hat chose not to enable it by default.
We built the drivers from the RHEL6 code but they seem badly broken:
Unfortunately I know. I am still trying to organize the current process so that we can provide more community testing and hopefully provide coverage so that this doesn't happen.
There were a large number of patches submitted for inclusion in kernel-3.0 (still in staging) but backporting this code to RHEL6 is not trivial.
I know. We have individuals who have already done parts of the backporting that are currently going through testing.
As it's not enabled by default, I would guess the chances of Red Hat backporting fixes to RHEL6 are less than zero, regardless of the politics.
To start with I guess we would need working code that builds on RHEL6 :-)
I can definately provide this.
Great - do you have a git repo or such where we can pull the code from please?